Fine Guidance Sensors Instrument Handbook, Version 4. 0
Fine Guidance Sensors Instrument Handbook, Version 4. 0

Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-07-08

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781722439811

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This is a revised version of the Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook. The main goal of this edition is to help the potential General Observer (GO) learn how to most efficiently use the Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS's). First, the actual performance of the FGS's as scientific instruments is reviewed. Next, each of the available operating modes of the FGS's are reviewed in turn. The status and findings of pertinent calibrations, including Orbital Verification, Science Verification, and Instrument Scientist Calibrations are included as well as the relevant data reduction software. Holfeltz, S. T. (Editor) Unspecified Center...

Transits of Venus (IAU C196)
Transits of Venus (IAU C196)

Author: International Astronomical Union. Colloquium

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-30

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780521849074

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IAU C196 coincided with the 8 June 2004 transit of Venus, producing the exciting, eclectic mix that can be found in these proceedings: the amazing history of the English North-country astronomers of the seventeenth century; the AU at a precision of 1.4 m; the explanation for the infamous black drop effect; a possible Mayan observation of a transit of Venus in the thirteenth century; the vexed question of leap seconds and time scales; history, distances, parallaxes, the solar system at exquisite precision and future space missions that will revolutionise astronomy.